by Leland Teschler, Executive Editor, @DW_LeeTeschler Today’s average teenager has never seen a dial telephone. It looks as though cords that plug into ac outlets will soon look just as strange to high schoolers. That’s because wireless charging may become ubiquitous enough to make ac power cords obsolete for most kinds of electrical equipment rather […]
Applications
Doherty PA reference design for small cell wireless
The CDPA35045 asymmetric Doherty PA reference design for the 3.5 to 3.7 GHz band provides increased wireless system capacity for both licensed wireless carrier services and unlicensed public use, such as Wi-Fi. Providing 10 W average output power and predistortion correctability, Doherty PA design uses 30-W CGHV27030S and 15-W CGHV27015S GaN HEMT devices, which can […]
Connectorized RF Amps hit 40 GHz
Pasternack Enterprises, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, has significantly expanded their portfolio of connectorized RF amplifiers including high power amplifiers, high-rel amplifiers, broadband amplifiers, limiting amplifiers, power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers (LNAs), log amplifiers and gain blocks. Pasternack’s broad lines of coaxial amplifiers are employed across the entire […]
Dual-band Wi-Fi audio IC for IoT
News Highlights: Enables multi-room experience on same network with advanced timing synchronization Includes support for Apple AirPlay™ Reduces cost for OEMs with fully integrated SoC and expands opportunities in home audio market Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation company in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, introduced the industry’s first dual-band Wi-Fi audio […]
IDT releases IEEE 1588 time and frequency generators
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ: IDTI) introduced a family of IEEE 1588 time and frequency generator chips to reduce costs while meeting the synchronization needs of LTE-Advanced, wireless backhaul and heterogeneous networks. The unique architecture and capabilities of these devices are fully documented and accessible to allow IEEE 1588 software designers to implement their […]
Allegro MicroSystems, LLC Introduces New Precision Hall-Effect Angle Sensor ICs
Designed for Digital Safety Critical Automotive Applications Allegro MicroSystems, LLC introduces a new family of contactless Hall magnetic sensors with the debut of its A1332 and A1334 high resolution 360° angle sensor ICs. Based on magnetic Circular Vertical Hall (CVH) technology, the A1332 and A1334 devices, with their system-on-chip (SoC) architectures, provide fast output refresh […]
Light-diffusing fiber teams up with laser diodes
Osram Opto Semiconductors and Corning Incorporated announce a co-marketing agreement to promote Corning Fibrance Light-Diffusing Fiber, a first-of-its-kind technology that embeds lighting into products using OSRAM laser diodes. Fibrance fiber uses Corning’s glass optical fiber designed for thin, colorful, aesthetic lighting and Osram’s blue and green laser diodes to create endless design possibilities. Fibrance fiber […]
Quiz Day Friday: Common Engineering Abbreviations
Welcome back to Friday and Quiz V2.0: Common Engineering Abbreviations. If you missed our kickoff last Friday, then catch up by taking Quiz V1.0: General Electronic and Electrical. No, it’s not a prerequisite but some of us like order. This is the second of 10 quizzes each with 10 questions from top members of the Electro-Tech-Online community […]
Quiz Day Friday: General Electronic and Electrical
Now that your week is winding down, it’s time to slowly transfer activity from those hyperactive brain circuits into the weekend. To help you along, we are kicking off Quiz Day Friday with the first of 10 quizzes each with 10 questions from top members of the Electro-Tech-Online community members including: 3vO, DerStrom, Ian Rogers, Roman Black, Reload […]
Low Power Conversion for Energy Harvesting
by Tony Armstrong, Director of Product Marketing, Linear Technology Corporation There is plenty of ambient energy in the world around us and the conventional approach for energy harvesting has been through solar panels and wind generators. However, new harvesting tools allow us to produce electrical energy from a wide variety of ambient sources. Furthermore, it is not the […]
